Consultants' Corner

On December 20, 2013, the Mexican Constitution was amended to enact comprehensive energy reform, including allowing private investment in the oil and gas sector. On August 12, 2014, a set of regulations intended to implement the constitutional reform came into effect. The regulations consisted of nine new statutes and amendments...

One of the key duties of legal departments is evaluating and managing risk, particularly around litigation funding. Yet when it comes to litigation, many in-house counsel lack the tools to perform these functions. Fortunately, there are a growing number of resources, technologies and methodologies to help in-house counsel and their...

In a previous article , we discussed how more and more law firms are looking to better understand which tools they should use to assess their legal department’s performance. We explored four of the more popular key performance indicators (KPIs) and discussed how they can help legal teams demonstrate the...

As lawyers, we often joke that our work is “not a matter of life and death.” We hear it in our heads when we realize we are taking ourselves a bit too seriously, and it’s what we hear on the phone from our families when another late night at...

By taking the time to develop key performance indicators (KPIs), legal teams can demonstrate the overall health of the business and, in turn, demonstrate to management how collecting specific data from their systems will help optimize both their business processes and their technology investment. Collecting data based on the following...

Anyone tasked with responsibility for enterprise cybersecurity has to consider a legal and compliance landscape that is evolving and growing in complexity. Cybersecurity planning and implementation potentially implicates a broad range of federal and state laws, regulatory rules and guidelines, standards, and other forms of published guidance that could impact...

Billing hundreds upon hundreds of hours of associate time for linear review is increasingly, if not already outright, untenable when proven technology exists to cull data and organize, prioritize, and outsource review.